Example sentences of "he [vb past] [conj] it be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something had upset her and he doubted if it was his arrival . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , in 7 BC this neat arrangement was interfered with in order to honour Augustus by renaming the month Sextilis after him ( he believed that it was his lucky month ) and assigning to it the same number of days as the preceding month that had been renamed after his murdered great-uncle by Mark Antony . |
| 3 | He stated that it was his intention to start a Salisbury delivery but great-grandmother said that whilst she would n't change , her daughter who was about to marry might be interested . |
| 4 | My interest was aroused when he reasoned that it was his blackness which constituted the major drawback in his life at one level , but at another , proved an indispensable asset to his eventual success . |
| 5 | When the West Country clothiers ' advocate William Temple wanted in 1739 to point to the advantages of the weavers , he stressed that it was their family earnings which lifted them above the condition of the farm worker . |
| 6 | He retorted that it was nothing to the risk he had taken . |
| 7 | He said that it was nothing to do with him ; it was a matter for the Department of the Environment . |
| 8 | And further , he said that it was his determination to see me again , to persuade me to live with him , that had streng-thened in him the desire to go on living , a desire that had been weak since the death of Montaine . |
| 9 | ‘ He said if it was his own son he would take him home and make him comfortable , ’ said Mrs McGettigan . |
| 10 | He considered that it was his primary duty to be a divine and theologian rather than a political bishop . |
| 11 | He explained that it was something like new party policy on homelessness and would involve a march into town piling up lots of boxes and collecting signatures on a Valentine type partition to give to Hugh . |
| 12 | He wondered if it was him . |
| 13 | He wondered if it was anyone he knew . |